| | | List of Figures | | |
| | | Introduction by Elizabeth Edwards and Christopher Morton | | 1 |
| Pt. I | | Historicizing Visual Anthropology | | |
| 1 | | Distempered Daubs and Encyclopaedic World Maps: The Ethnographic Significance of Panoramas and Mappaemundi by Alison Griffiths | | 27 |
| 2 | | Anthropology and the Cinematic Imagination by David MacDougall | | 55 |
| Pt. II | | Institutional Structures | | |
| 3 | | Salvaging Our Past: Photography and Survival by Elizabeth Edwards | | 67 |
| 4 | | Frozen Poses: Hamatsa Dioramas, Recursive Representation, and the Making of a Kwakwakawakw Icon by Aaron Glass | | 89 |
| Pt. III | | Fieldwork | | |
| 5 | | The Initiation of Kamanga: Visuality and Textuality in Evans-Pritchards Zande Ethnography by Christopher Morton | | 119 |
| 6 | | For Scientific Purposes a Stand Camera is Essential: Salvaging Photographic Histories in Papua by Joshua A. Bell | | 143 |
| 7 | | Visual Methods in Early Japanese Anthropology: Torii Ryuzo in Taiwan by Ka F. Wong | | 171 |
| 8 | | Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Visual Anthropology in Early Twentieth-Century German Anthropology by Paul Hempel | | 193 |
| Pt. IV | | Indigenous Histories | | |
| 9 | | Faletaus Photocopy, or the Mutability of Visual History in Roviana by Christopher Wright | | 223 |
| 10 | | John Layard long Malakula 1914-1915: The Potency of Field Photography by Anita Herle | | 241 |
| 11 | | Just by Bringing These Photographs ...: On the Other Meanings of Anthropological Images by Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown | | 265 |
| | | Selected Reading | | 281 |
| | | Index | | 287 |